Bibliographic Database Searching by Graduate Students in Language and Literature: Search Strategies, System Interfaces, and Relevance Judgments.

Shaw, Deborah

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Publication Date: 1995

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Bibliographic Database Searching by Graduate Students in Language and Literature: Search Strategies, System Interfaces, and Relevance Judgments.

Shaw, Deborah

Library & Information Science Research, v17 n4 p327-45 Fall 1995

Discussion of information retrieval in the humanities focuses on a study of 10 graduate students at Indiana University as they conducted literature searches using databases on CD-ROM. Highlights include a review of related literature, search strategies, relevance assessments, human-computer interaction, and databases and indexing. (LRW)

Descriptors: Bibliographic Databases, Computer Interfaces, Graduate Students, Higher Education, Humanities, Indexing, Information Needs, Information Retrieval, Literature Reviews, Man Machine Systems, Online Searching, Optical Data Disks, Relevance (Information Retrieval), Search Strategies

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Language: English

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